Today was a relaxing day at the hotel. We had to wait around For our guide to pick up all of our Chinese paperwork and Annie's Chinese passport so we can move on to Guangzhou. Our flight is at 7:25 PM China Time. It is a two hour flight south to Guangzhou. We will be moving to warmer temperatures. It is about 55 degrees in Hefei today and should be in the mid 70's when we get to Guangzhou. We will miss our guide TingTing as she was a Godsend. Very organized and very kind. Tomorrow we will start our paperwork for the US side of things. Crazy as it sounds, fourteen years ago with Molly, this was a little more difficult than the Chinese side. Hopefully we will get a little warmer reception at the US Consulate than we did back then. Over the next few days we will get Annie's Visa and medical tests so we can bring her home. We will also have the oath taking ceremony done in Guangzhou. We are all reaching a point where we want to be on that big jet back to JFK.
Kim is doing an amazing job with Annie. She is still doing well, but testing us on many levels. This will be her first plane ride ever, so it should be interesting.
Knock on wood, everyone's health is holding up. There is another couple at our hotel who adopted a four year old. The mother got violently ill and had to go to the hospital. Have not heard how she is doing yet.
I attached some additional photos from the orphanage and tomorrow should have some shots from Guangzhou. Love to all !
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